National Peanut Perspective meeting, March 23

LUBBOCK, Texas – A look ahead at peanuts will be the focus of an upcoming conference, Peanuts: A National Perspective, in Lubbock, March 23. The conference will provide area producers and industry representatives the opportunity for insight into national and statewide peanut trends.

Featured speakers will include Raffaela Marie R. Fenn, president and managing director of the National Peanut Board, discussing the national promotions campaign. Marshall Lamb, agricultural economist with the USDA-ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga., will address the new peanut market and marketing options. John Baldwin, Extension peanut specialist from Tifton, Ga., will talk about production and acreage trends in the Southeast. Stanley Fletcher, coordinator for the National Center for Peanut Competitiveness at the University of Georgia, will present a recently released national peanuts and peanut butter consumption report.